Dear Diary,

I have always lived in Washington, Forks for as long as I can remember. I've had the same house, family, and even friends since then. Some things have slightly changed, but one thing never will. My best friend will always be Edward Cullen. This is my first diary entry in this new diary, which was given to me as a welcoming home present by Edward.

One thing has changed between this year and last. Right now, it is the third week of my junior year (I'm taking French 5/6 and AP English as my harder classes,) and I spent my summer in Paris, France touring the city with my family. My family is actually very small; it consists of my parents-- Renee and Charlie Swan and me. I am an only child, and although I know that many teenagers my age either hate there siblings and can't stand them, or love them with all of their heart and would do anything for them. I would personally do anything for a younger sister; I would want to teach her the various things that I had to teach myself, because I never had an older sister to teach me these things.

Edward's family is actually the complete opposite of mine. He has two older brothers (Andrew and Emmett,) and older sister (Rosalie,) and a younger twin sister-- Alice. If I had to pick a girl as a best friend, it would definitely be Alice. She is the cutest little thing (people often compare her to a pixie,) and although she is--also-- very different than me (she loves shopping and girly things like the color pink) we get a long very well, and have about the same opinion on guys. Ironically enough, we are both going out with a set of best friends. Weird huh? She is with Jasper, and I'm with James. They've been going out for the past year, and I've been going out with James for the past four moths-- just last night we finally told each other that we loved the other. I truly to love him-- in fact, I've had a crush on him for the past seven moths. The day that we got together was the second best day of my life. (The first was the first day of second grade, when I realized that boys no longer had cooties, and made best friends with Edward after he saved me from a bee.)

Oh wow, I've gotten way ahead of myself-- I was trying to explain to you about Edward's family. Well you already know about Alice. Andrew and Emmett are left… all you really need to know about them is that they are very large football players that look like they could crush you into a million pieces with just one hand. Edward and I get along with them just fine-- even considering the fact that Emmett always feels the need to play random mean tricks on me at least once a week; but it's not always that bad because Edward plays the hero and saves me and/or yells at him. Nobody can ever really get mad at Emmett… he's just to playful, which is why he's definitely Edward's favorite brother. They always play basketball everyday afterschool (I've forbidden Edward from playing football because freshman year he was on the team and some random fat guy from the other team tackled him and broke both of his arms and his right let; granted Emmett and Andrew almost killed him two minutes later, but it still scared the crap out of me.) Rosalie-- Edward's older sister is a completely different story. Edward and Rosalie have hated each other since the day that I came into Edward's life. Rosalie doesn't like me--never has-- so she treats me like crap, and Edward being the gentleman that he is, always sticks up for me-- causing them to constantly fight. I obviously feel horrible about this, but there really is nothing that I can do about it-- I've already tried everything… I guess that people just can't always get along…

Anyways, I have to go finish my AP English homework; my teacher is seriously a psycho, and is making turn in two separate 5-page essays in next Monday (which is in only 4 days, and I'm not even half finished with them.) I promise I'll update you with what else is going on in my life soon… I want to tell you more about Edward.

Thanks for listening!

Bella

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I know that it's short, but it's just a prologue… please review so that I know that I have people reading… it inspires me to update faster! I'm planning to make a pretty dramatic plot line for this, but because I'm new I might need some help; so PLEASE drop by a comment/review!